Bernhard Hadolt (PhD) is a social anthropologist with a specialisation
in medical anthropology. He is a senior lecturer and director of studies
at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University
of Vienna.
Andrea Stöckl (PhD) is a medical anthropologist and practising
psychotherapist, working in Innsbruck, Austria. She has been a lecturer
at the School of Medicine, Health Policy, and Practices at the
University of East Anglia, UK, until 2021.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
1 Embracing Uncertainty 25
2 Hope, Trust, Medical Action, and Care 39
3 Self-Tracking Practices of "Doing Health" 61
4 Precarious Lives, Uncertainty and the Politics of Hope 79
5 Between Uncertainty and Routinization 97
6 "Being a Little Bit Pregnant" 117
7 Solo Living and Cancer in Denmark 137
8 The Uncertain Future of Antibiotics 155
9 Transfigurations of Lived Iatrogenic Risks in Switzerland 175
10 "Skyped, Zoomed and WhatsApped" 197
11 Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue 213
12 Fighting for Recovery 231
13 Figurations of Feasting on Fermented Food in Four Remote Regions of Switzerland 251
Contributors 273